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NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY OF HEALTH DIGITAL COLLECTION Proceedings of the North Carolina Dental Society Volumes 44 (1918) DOCUMENT NO. NCHH-33-044 || http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/nchealthhistory || This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). For more information about the collection, or to search other volumes, please visit: || http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/specialcollections/nchealthhistory || PROCEEDINGS OF THE NORTH CAROUNA DENTAL SOCIETY FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING HELD AX WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N. C. JUNE 19-21, 1918 Reported and Transcribed by DR. WHITFIELD COBB WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Winston Printing Company winston-salem, n. c. 1918 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 1918-1919 Officers. J. N. Johnson, President Goldsboro, N. C. R. T. Gallagher, First Vice President Washington, N. C. A. S. Cromartie, Second Vice-President Fayetteville, N. C. W. T. Martin, Secretary, Benson, N. C. R. M. Morrow, Treasurer Burlington, N. C. D. E. McConnell, Essayist Gastonia, N. C. Committees EXECUTIVE R. M. Squires, Chairman, Wake Forest, N. C. Raleigh, N. C. P. R. Falls, Gastonia, N. C. J. Martin Fleming, ethics Wilson, N. C. J. R. Edmundson, Chairman, E. R. Warren, Goldsboro, N. C. I. H. Davis, Oxford, N. C. legislative F. L. Hunt, Chairman, Asheville, N. C. Raleigh, N. C. E. Tucker, Roxboro, N. C. J. Martin Fleming, J. auditing Whitfield Cobb, Chairman, Winston-Salem, N. C. Forest, N. C. Sam Levy, Charlotte, N. C. J. A. Yarborough, Wake oral hygiene Winston-Salem, N. C. J. C. Watkins, Chairman, T. P. BuLLARD, Roseboro, N. C. Oscar Hooks, Wilson, N. C. exhibits Joseph Fulton, Chairman, Asheville, N. C. Asheville, C. R. A. Little, Asheville, N. C. J. W. Faucette, N. program H. L. Keith, Chairman, Hendersonville, N. C. W. F. Bell, Asheville, N. C. J. S. Spurgeon, Hillsboro, N. C. board of examiners Raleigh, N. C. J. Martin Fleming, Chairman, F. L. Hunt, Secretary, Asheville, N. C. S. Spurgeon, Hillsboro, N. C. J. S. Betts, Greensboro, N. C. J. N. C. C. A. Thompson, Wilson, N. C. J. H. Wheeler, Greensboro, DELEGATES TO NATIONAL ASSOCIATION F. L. Hunt, Asheville, N. C. R. M. Morrow, Burlington, N. C. ALTERNATES C, C. L, Alexander, Charlotte, N. C. J. C. Watkins, Winston-Salem, N. : PROCEEDINGS Auditorium, Wrightsville Beach, N. C, June 19, 1918. The forty-fourth annual meeting of the North Carolina Dental Society was called to order Wednesday evening, June 19, 1918, at 9:20 o'clock, by the President, Dr. R. M. Squires, of Wake Forest, N. C. The invocation was made by Dr. John Jeter Hurt, Pastor of the First Bapitst Church, Wilmington, after which the President introduced Hon. P. Q. Moore, Mayor of Wilming- ton, who in welcoming the society to Wrightsville Beach and to Wilmington, said Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great pleasure that I have tonight to greet you and to welcome you in behalf of the people of Wilmington and to tell you how glad we are to have you with us and to wish you God speed in the work in which you are engaged; and it is my pleasure and privilege tonight to tell you about the spirit of the people of Wilmington, how they are working day and night to help win this war in which we are engaged and to tell you of the splendid spirit that they are showing individually and collectively in this regard. When the Governor of North Carolina called upon me to name a Board of Registrars here, if I had known the immense amount of work that would fall upon the shoulders of these men, if I had known the fear- ful responsibility that would be placed upon them, I would have hesi- tated; but I had the honor and the pleasure of naming J. Allen Taylor and Chas.C. Chadbourn; and I want to tell you that these two men have devoted practically their whole time, day and night, not taking the one dollar which many rich men of the country have been taking, but they have refused the dollar. They have practically given up all of their private business and they have gone further. These men have given their boys. J. Allen Taylor's only boy today is over in France. The two splendid boys whom Chas. C. Chadbourn has educated, trained, loved and watched grow up around him as his own have been sent as aviators and they are flying for America. We are building ships here now, and this is what you are interested in, because of the fact that what we do here in Wilmington in the way of shipbuilding for the purpose of winning this war, is for North Carolina, and the nation. You are vitally interested because Wilmington is your seaport city and what North Carolina does in the way of shipbuilding is of vital interest to all American citizens. 4 Proceedings North Carolina Dental Society I saw General Julian S. Carr, an old Confederate soldier, raise the United States flag over the Steel Ship Yard: and as the flag reached the peak and was flying in the breeze, I saw tears glistening in his eyes and heard him say, "This is beautiful, the most beautiful scene I have ever witnessed." A few days ago we had the pleasure of witnessing the raising of another flag—the flag that flies on the first Government owned concrete ship plant in America. We are building ships here and we will build more ships. We are going to build ships that will carry across the waters food and ammu- nition. We will build ships that will carry across the waters our soldier boys and when we get sufficient ammunition and enough food and the desired number of our boys across the water, we are going to take Old Glory and place it upon the ramparts of Berlin itself and keep it there, until every German knee shall bow in salutation to the Stars and Stripes. You have heard tonight that Arthur Bluethenthal has been killed, the first Wilmington boy to make the supreme sacrifice across the water. He has given his life for liberty, for civilization and for God. Our people have heard the call of brave American men, women and little children as they were hurled down beneath the waters of the ocean by the sneak- ing, lurking submarines and we have heard the cry of the Red Cross nurse, Edith Cavell, who so tenderly nursed the German wounded and dying and while ministering to her own beloved English soldiers, how she was made to face a German firing squad. We have heard the call of poor unoffending Belgium, of bright, sunny France; and we have heard the call of dear old mother England. We are answering their calls, answering by sending across the waters the young men of Wilmington and the young men of North Carolina, who are going forth determined to pull the teeth of the kaiser, and I know of no men better qualified to remove the teeth of the monster than the members of this organization. American manhood supported by the brave womanhood of the land will pull his teeth so that he cannot make war upon old men and women, upon defenceless towns, upon hospitals, upon the wounded and dying, upon ships with the Red Cross flag floating above them and upon nurses of the Red Cross and wounded American boys. We will pull his teeth so that the world may be made safe for liberty and justice and civilization. I am glad my friends, to welcome you here and in the name of thirty thousand people I bid you welcome and I hope that this meeting will prove one of the greatest of your organization. I trust that your stay here will be one round of pleasure and profit. Dr. S. R. Horton, of Raleigh, N. C, in responding to the address of welcome, said: Mr. President, Officers and Members of the North Carolina Dental Association, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am indeed proud to be the mouthpiece of the dentists of North Caro- lina, than which there are no better patriots or champions for the com- Proceedings North Carolina Dental Society 5 mon weal. I am positively sure that I voice the sentiment of every person present when I say we respond in every fibre of our being to the gracious and happy welcome we have just received. Replying to the very patriotic welcome we have just received I would not be true to our boys across the water did I not speak some word of appreciation for our boys and warning for ourselves. I have never loved the negro as now for they are doing their duty cheerfully and have refused to be contaminated by the Hun plotters. Every one of us have a duty to perform in this war, whether we shoul- der a gun in the defense of our country or remain at home.